Today's highlights...
The Presidency
21-03-2010
The General Affairs Council, chaired by the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, will be devoted to preparing the preliminary conclusions that the Heads of State and of Government plan to approve during the European Council next Thursday and Friday.
Culture
21-03-2010
The exhibition ‘Similar Itineraries: Ten Spanish Photographers’ takes up residence at the Moscow Cervantes Institute, where it will be on until 30 April. The exhibition includes the work of ten outstanding Spanish photographers born in the 50s and 60s.
Pictures
21-03-2010
Exhibition of the works of Ima Montoya: ‘Human Landscape inside Europe’.
Coming up
Highlights of the press conference on the second revision of the Cotonou Agreement. [19-03-10]
What's happening now
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The European debate will focus on Haiti and Chile
21-03-2010
Discussion at the next EU Foreign Affairs Council, chaired by the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, will focus on the situation in Haiti and Chile after the successive earthquakes which struck in the months of January and February.
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This week Madrid will be the world transplantation capital
21-03-2010
The Spanish Minister of Health and Social Policy, Trinidad Jiménez, will open the ‘Madrid organ and donation and transplantation conference’ on Tuesday, that will bring together the EU Ministers of Health and experts from all over the world.
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EU-ACP agreement on the second revision of the Cotonou Agreement
19-03-2010
The European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries have agreed on the second revision of the Cotonou Agreement, which has regulated aid and trade relations between the two parties since the year 2000.
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19-03-2010
The Spanish Embassy in Belgium organised a recital of opera and ‘zarzuela’ at the Concert Noble in Brussels, which was attended by the European Commissioner for Competition, Joaquín Almunia, and the Spanish embassador, Carlos Gómez-Múgica, along with a great many Spaniards resident in the city.
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"Trio" of employment ministers set job creation as key objective
18-03-2010
The ministers of employment of Spain, Belgium and Hungary have all described job creation as a key objective for the EU, with short-term measures set within Europe's 2020 Strategy.
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Spain favours local labour regulations in the country of work
18-03-2010
Spain's Secretary General for Employment, Maravillas Rojo, supports the application of local Member State labour regulations applying to citizens working temporarily in other EU countries.
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The EU will promote local and regional participation in policies to combat the crisis
18-03-2010
The Informal Meeting of EU Territorial Policy Ministers on 16 and 17 March in Málaga has enabled the three successive rotating presidencies to commit to giving ‘decisive impetus’ to local and regional participation and coordination during their respective tenures
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16-03-2010
Spain's Minister of Economy and Finance, Elena Salgado, speaking at the end of the Ecofin meeting, said she is maintaining the goal of sealing a European agreement on the regulation of hedge funds before the end of the six-month term of Spain's Presidency of the EU.
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